Luka Rocco Magnotta will be held in pre-extradition custody in Berlin on a court’s order as his likely return to Canada to face charges for the alleged murder and dismemberment of Chinese student Jun Lin in Montreal nears, authorities said Wednesday.Berlin state court spokesman Tobias Kaehne said the court decided at the end of last week that there was enough evidence to keep Magnotta behind bars pending extradition.

“That means that he must now remain in custody until a possible extradition to Canada,” he said.

MONTREAL – A Montreal high school teacher has been suspended and is facing a disciplinary hearing Wednesday after showing the video of the alleged murder and mutilation of Jun Lin to his Grade 10 students.

The unidentified history and citizenship teacher at Cavelier-De LaSalle high school in the borough of LaSalle screened the grotesque scenes during his class on June 4, reportedly after a show of hands on whether students wanted to see it.

Police believe the video depicts the actual killing, dismemberment and cannibalism of Mr. Lin, 33, a student from Wuhan, China who was studying computer science at Concordia University.

A police spokesman has described the content as so disgusting that seasoned detectives forced to watch it as part of their investigation were left shaken.

Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, was arrested last week in Berlin and is facing murder charges in connection with the killing. He is awaiting extradition from Germany.

In a statement Wednesday, the Commission Scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys, the school board responsible for the school, said it and the school’s administration “condemn with a single voice the action of a teacher who showed his students a video with content as inappropriate as it is offensive.”

The teacher, described as being about 25-years-old, was suspended with salary as soon as the administration learned of the screening. The school immediately made a team of psychologists and counselors available to students traumatized by what they had seen.

That same day, the board said, the teacher apologized to the school through an email. A decision on final disciplinary action will be made following Wednesday’s hearing with the labour-relations officials from the school board.

Students interviewed Wednesday by Radio-Canada said they felt badly for the teacher, because they had chosen by vote to watch the video. “We are all curious, and we all want to know what really happened,” one girl told the network. “But in the end I’m not sure it was really relevant. In the beginning we all wanted to know how it happened, but when I think about it, maybe it was not the right action to take.”

Another student told reporters that it was the students who asked him to play the video. She said the teacher was hesitant. A few children in the class also objected. But the vast majority of students, she said, convinced him to play the video.

A video circulating on the Internet — called 1 Lunatic, 1 Ice Pick — is believed by authorities to show Lin’s murder in Montreal several weeks ago.

It shows someone stabbing a man and dismembering him. It then shows the killer committing acts of sex and cannibalism on parts of the corpse.

In a statement issued Tuesday through Concordia University, Mr. Lin’s family expressed their appreciation for the compassion of Canadians since they learned of their son’s murder. “We are deeply touched by the kindness inspired by this human tragedy,” they said.

Quebec Education Minister Michelle Courchesne called it “frightening” that a teacher would choose to show his students the gruesome video. “It displays a total lack of judgement,” she told reporters in Quebec City. “I see no educational value in that.”

Another Montreal high-school teacher says he has heard from several of his students who have watched the video at home and immediately regretted it.